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Over the past 1 month, glove stocks' prices have rallied spectacularly.
The top 4 glove makers have risen between 37 and 168% since end of
March.

Table 1: Glove stocks' price gain over last 50 days

The rise is so sharp that the top producers are now trading at PER of 44
to 71 times. If that is not enough, analysts are falling over one
another to upgrade their target prices, giving each stock even higher
target price.

Table 2: Glove stocks' valuation by Kenanga

This afternoon, one of my clients sent me a table of the market
capitalization of our banking stocks and the top 4 glove makers. It is
indeed a surprise to see Harta and Topglov commanding market cap
comparable to HLBANK and RHBBANK.

Table 3: Banking and glove stocks' market cap & valuation compared

When will the rally in glove stocks peak? I used an unorthodox approach
in determining the potential peak for glove stocks by looking at the
unadjusted price charts of Harta, Topglov and Kossan.

All these 3 stocks have consistently been giving out 1-for-1 bonus issue
(1-to-2 share split is very similar to a 1-to-1 bonus) over the past 10
years. If you looked at the unadjusted price charts, each of these
stocks had subsequently rallied back to their respective unadjusted
prior peaks- which effectively means that their share prices have
doubled up during that period. There were only one occasion when Harta
and Kossan's rallies had exceeded their prior peaks- in 2018 and 2016
respectively. Today, Topglov and Kossan share prices are very close to
their prior peaks. Harta share price has another RM2.00 to go to reach
its prior peak.

In my opinion, the potential upside for the top 4 glove stocks is now
fairly limited. It is advisable to take some profit on these stocks
after the strong rally, notwithstanding the analysts' very favorable
rating and extremely high price target.